How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos<br> of Violence

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
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On Photography and Complicity

By Pepper Stetler | May 1, 2020

Eavan Boland: Beautiful and Complicated and Fierce and Brilliant and Loyal

Eavan Boland: Beautiful and Complicated and Fierce and Brilliant and Loyal

Gabrielle Calvocoressi Remembers Their Friend

By Gabrielle Calvocoressi | May 1, 2020

Greil Marcus on <em>Gatsby</em>: A Blues Fable of the Great Depression

Greil Marcus on Gatsby: A Blues Fable of the Great Depression

Reconsidering the American Myth of a Distant Paradise

By Greil Marcus | April 30, 2020

Newly-Translated Latin American Stories Defy Colonial Myths

Newly-Translated Latin American Stories Defy Colonial Myths

Lucas Iberico Lozada on Expanding the Canon

By Lucas Iberico Lozada | April 30, 2020

More Reasons to Move to New Zealand: A Literary Guide

More Reasons to Move to New Zealand: A Literary Guide

Literary Landmarks, Contemporary Writing, and More

By Elen Turner | April 29, 2020

Rufi Thorpe on the Narrative Role of the Bystander

Rufi Thorpe on the Narrative Role of the Bystander

Writing Ordinary People Who Witness the Extraordinary

By Rufi Thorpe | April 29, 2020

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The Saint and I: On Augustine and Writing About Mothers

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All Poetry is Collaboration

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Matthew Rohrer on the Importance of Listening

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On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

A Groundbreaking Storytelling Formula Since the 18th Century

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Guiding Me Back to My Caribbean Roots: Remembering Novelist Andrea Levy

Guiding Me Back to My Caribbean Roots: Remembering Novelist Andrea Levy

Keishel A. Williams on Fruit of the Lemon, a Classic of Immigration Lit

By Keishel A. Williams | April 24, 2020

Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends

Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends

Finding Communion in the Fairy Tales We Tell

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Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

Lawrence Joseph on Robert Hayden, Etel Adnan, Adrienne Rich, and Cathy Park Hong

By Lawrence Joseph | April 22, 2020

Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

Veronica Esposito on How Art Refracts Differently
Through a Life Over Time

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William Styron's Misguided Meditation on History

William Styron's Misguided Meditation on History

Chris Tomlin Asks Who Can Claim the Story of Nat Turner

By Christopher Tomlins | April 20, 2020

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